The Global Children's Initiative is an organization that was established to use a collaborative science-based research base to help improve the lives of children around the world. They have several partnerships with organizations around the world. One of the partnerships they have is with Nucleo Clencia Pela Infancia (NCPI). The NCPI is a Brazilian initiative to increase the knowledge of how lifelong health and wellness begins in early childhood. The NCPI is working to build a scientific community around child development to work with with policy makers to improve the lives of all young children in Brazil. The other important two task that the NCPI is working on is to take the research to build social policy and build leaders in the field, also since it is a global partnership they have to translate all research to Portuguese so it is accessible to all Brazilians.
Being an early childhood educator in the United States it is easy to get caught up in the needs of our own communities, which is important, but we need to become a global community and be part of a global conversation about addressing the needs of young children around the world.
As I read about the international work organizations like the Global Children's Initiative do it really is an eye-opener as an early childhood educator what children from other countries struggle with day to day. It just opens my eyes and heart a little more. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI will agree with you that we tend to get caught up in our communities in the states, however its so hard to focus on other countries sometimes when there is so much to focus on within our own areas. Thanks for sharing,
ReplyDeleteI agree as well. I think if we are to start small, then all schools in one state should be governed as one district. In NYS, every town is their own district. I think that allows for too much inequality in the education that children get. Some towns cannot afford to give their children the education that they deserve. We need to work together as a global community beginning with each state.
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